Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 9
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Recognizing the importance of birth registration, including late birth registration and provision of documents of proof of birth, as a means of providing an official record of the existence of a person and the recognition of that individual as a person before the law, and as a critical means of preventing statelessness,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Person(s) affected
Infants
Year
2017
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2017), A/HRC/RES/34/15, PP 9.